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Introduction

Related fields and topics

Related projects and reports

Universal information access
Universal interactivity
Panlingual information, communication, and documentation
Naturalistic languages in general
Naturalistic languages in the Semantic Web
Natural-language-based knowledge representation
Restricted natural-language varieties
Formally specified natural-language varieties
Natural-language interoperability
Naturalistic languages in translation
Language in human-machine interaction
Naturalistic languages in programming
Theory and history of language design

Related conferences

Introduction

On this page we have collected some related fields, topics, and links. The focus is on people, organizations, and projects related to our interests in naturalistic language design and implementation for Semantic Web and other human and human-machine multiagent communication and collaboration.

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Related fields and topics

Fields and topics we find related to our interests include:

agent communication languages
ambiguity
ambiguity resolution
artificial auxiliary international languages
bilingualism
computational linguistics
controlled languages
convention
description logics
diffusion of innovations
economics of language
end-user programming
first-language acquisition
globalization
grammar induction
human factors
instructional programming languages
intentional programming
interaction design
interlingua-based machine translation
international organization
internationalization
knowledge representation
language death
language evolution
language standardization
language typology
language universals
linguistic relativity
localization
machine translation
multiagent systems
natural-language-based knowledge representation
natural-language interfaces
natural-language processing
natural-language programming
norms
ontologies
philosophical languages
protocol standardization
pidgins and creoles
programming instruction
programming language design
scientific/technical notations
second-language learning and instruction
Semantic Web standardization
speech acts
standardization
sublanguages
terminology
technical writing/communication
Unicode standardization
usability
user interface design

Related projects and reports


Universal information access

Internet Archive: Universal Access to Human Knowledge

Competing universal-digital-library projects

Wikimedia Foundation


Universal interactivity

Universal Networking Language

Worldwide Lexicon

Tongue-Tied: The Disadvantages of Using Natural Language for Interstellar Message Composition (Kim Binsted)


Panlingual information, communication, and documentation

Rosetta Project

OmegaWiki project

Multilingual Wikis

NICT Language Grid project

Best Practices for XML Internationalization

Localisation Research Centre

Pan Asia Networking Localization

PanAfrican Localisation

Massively collaborative translation

Foundation for Endangered Languages

Multilingual

Globalization & Localization Association

Universal Declaration of Human Rights translation project

Automatic prediction of misconceptions in multilingual computer-mediated communication


Naturalistic languages in general

Controlled Natural Languages (Rolf Schwitter)

Controlled-Languages Archives

Sublanguage: Studies of Language in Restricted Semantic Domains (R. Kittredge, J. Lehrberger)

Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains: Sublanguage Description and Processing (R. Grishman, R. Kittredge)

The Optimization of International Communication: The New Industrial Language Design from an Interlinguistic Perspective (Klaus Schubert)

Sublanguages (Richard Kittredge)


Naturalistic languages in the Semantic Web

Semantic Web

RDFa Primer 1.0 (how to add structure to a Web page)

W3C Common Web Language Incubator Group

Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (Clay Shirky)

Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web (Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice)

Controlled Natural Language Meets the Semantic Web (Rolf Schwitter, Marc Tilbrook)

A Semantic Web Page Linguistic Annotation Model (Guadalupe Aguado de Cea et al.)

Metalog PNL (Pseudo Natural Language): introduction, report

Semantic MediaWiki

Annotating the Semantic Web Using Natural Language (Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin)

Specifying Ontologies: Linguistic Aspects in Problem-driven Knowledge Engineering (Roman Urro, Werner Winiwarter)

The 'Family of Languages' Approach to Semantic Interoperability (J. Euzenat and H. Stuckenschmidt)


Natural-language-based knowledge representation

Natural Language Based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives (special track at 2005 FLAIRS conference)

Why Base the Knowledge Representation Language on Natural Language? (Fernando Gomez)

What You See Is What You Meant (WYSIWYM)

The Open Mind Common Sense Project

Mind the Semantic Gap (David E. Millard et al.)

Interpreting Loosely Encoded Questions (James Fan and Bruce Porter)

Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence (Rick Briggs)


Restricted natural-language varieties

Overviews

Controlled Languages in Industry (Richard H. Wojcik & James E. Hoard)

Controlled-language authoring and translation memory (Jeffrey Allen)

Beyond Plain English (TechScribe)

On Original Generation of Structure in Legal Documents (Steven O. Kimbrough et al.)

Active projects and tools

ASD Simplified Technical English

Boeing Simplified English Checker (for ASD Simplified Technical English)

MAXit Checker (for ASD Simplified Technical English)

Aviation English

HyperSTE

Inactive or proprietary projects

The KANT Project

ALCOGRAM

Simplified English Checker/Corrector (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Controlled Automotive Service Language (General Motors)

EasyEnglish (IBM; partly controlled-language-based grammar/ambiguity checker)

Français Rationalisé (Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales--GIFAS)

Perkins Approved Clear English (and associated checker)

Siemens-Dokumentationsdeutsch (Controlled Siemens Documentary German): HTML, PDF

ClearTalk

BCL Research Group (semantically annotated simplified-natural-language documentation)

Controlled Modern Greek: specifications ; checker

ScaniaSwedish

Controlled Chinese

Plain Japanese

MULTILINT

PoliceSpeak


Formally specified natural-language varieties

Overviews

Controlled natural language (Wikipedia)

Controlled English (John F. Sowa)

Active projects and tools

Attempto Controlled English

AceWiki

PENG (Processable ENGlish)

CPL (Computer-Processable Language)

CLIE

Formalised English

Inactive projects

Common Logic Controlled English

E2V: A Two-variable Fragment of English (Ian Pratt-Hartmann)

CPE: Computer Processable English

Controlled English to Logic Translation

An Efficient Easily Adaptable System for Interpreting Natural Language Queries (David H. D. Warren, Fernando C. N. Pereira)

VHDL Controlled English Commenting


Natural-language interoperability

Unicode

UDHR in Unicode project

Open Lexicon Interchange Format

GOLD

Grammar Matrix

Universals in Semantics (von Fintel and Matthewson)

MEANING Project

kasahorow

Information Mapping Project


Naturalistic languages in translation

Controlled Language Translation (2003 conference)

Interactive Enconversion by Means of the ETAP-3 System" (Igor M. Boguslavsky et al.)

Measuring the Translatability of Simplified English in Procedural Documents (Jan H. Spyridakis et al.)

Universal Translation Language

Machine Translation (D. J. Arnold et al.), ch. 8 ("Input")

The Distributed Language Translation project (A.P.M. Witkam)

The Distributed Language Translation project (Klaus Schubert)

WEBTRAN

Paraphrase-based translation

muegge.cc


Language in human-machine interaction

HumanML

GILT (Globalization, internationalization, localization, and translation)

The Universal Speech Interface Project

The Mangrove Project

Esperonto

10x: Human-Machine Symbiosis (Deb Roy)

Facilitating Agent in Multicultural Exchange

Linguistic Side Effects (Chung-chieh Shan)

Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users

The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication in Instant Messaging, E-mail and Chat


Natural and naturalistic languages in programming

Natural language programming: Styles, strategies, and contrasts (L.A. Miller)

On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (Edsger W. Dijkstra)

Natural programming languages and environments (Brad A. Myers et al.)

Towards More Natural Functional Programming Languages (Brad A. Myers)

Toward Natural Language Computation (Alan W. Biermann, Bruce W. Ballard)

What the nature of natural language tells us about how to make natural-language-like programming languages more natural (Jerry R. Hobbs)

Beyond Programming Languages (Terry Winograd)

Beyond AOP: Toward Naturalistic Programming (Cristina Videira Lopes et al.)

The use of English as a programming language (Jean E. Sammet)

Feasibility Studies for Programming in Natural Language (Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu)

Metafor: Visualizing Stories As Code (Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman)

Should We Leverage Natural-Language Knowledge? An Analysis of User Errors in a Natural-Language-Style Programming Language (Amy Bruckman, Elizabeth Edwards)

The ML Approach to the Readable All-Purpose Language (C.R. Spooner)

The New C Standard (Sentence 787): An Economic and Cultural Commentary (Derek M. Jones)


Theory and history of language design

Programming Languages, Natural Languages, and Mathematics (Peter Naur)

Principles of language design and evolution (Bertrand Meyer)

Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century (Jaap Maat)

Conlangs (Jeffrey Henning)

A Conlang FAQ (Dean Easton)

Annotated bibliography of artificial languages

About Interlinguistics (Klaus Schubert)

Related conferences

2005/05/15-17: Natural-Language-Based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives

2005/05/26-27: Workshop on the Analysis of Informal and Formal Information Exchange during Negotiations

2005/07/01-03: Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories in Morphosyntactic Annotation

2005/07/25-26: AAMAS 2005 Workshop on Agent Communication

2005/09/12-12: Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation

2005/10/06-08: Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Vancouver, B.C.)

2005/10/19-22: IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005

2005/11/03-06: First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web

2005/11/06-10: Fourth International Semantic Web Conference

2005/11/06-11: Interactive Media: The Enhancement of Multilingual Communication and Learning through Technology

2005/11/09-12: American Translators Association: Annual Conference (Seattle)

2006/01/23-27: Global WordNet Association: 3rd International Conference (association aims include "connecting wordnets for all languages in the world" and "the standardization of the Inter-Lingual-Index for inter-linking the wordnets of different languages, as a universal index of meaning")

2006/01/??-??: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

2006/02/22-24: Workshop on Lexical Semantic Resources for Language Documentation and Language Processing

2006/03/06-09: Semantic Technology Conference

2006/12/18: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents

2007/06/14-15: First International Symposium on Universal Communication

2007/07/27: SIGIR 2007 Workshop: "Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries"

2007/10/21-23: 2007 International Symposium on Wikis, WikiSym 2007

2007/11/02-05: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents, CHAA'07

2008/02/14: Workshop: Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation

2008/04/05: Semantic Web User Interaction: Exploring HCI Challenges, SWUI2008CHI

2008/07/14-17: 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services, SWWS'08

2008/09/18-19: Workshop on Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic Semantic Knowledge, LDALSK at MiSSI'08

2009/02/20-21: Second International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC 2009

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